[friendzis]

This somehow reminds me of the argument around git-flow. It's a decent reasoning, however, the whole idea is based on having a single, bleeding edge version. Basically a SaaS.

A lot of companies/products do not work that way. Some have physical products out there that have to be updated, some have on-premises deployments, some sell user software of which there are multiple versions under support. Each of these live versions have to have their own source branches and dependency trees. A single `:latest` can render future bugfixes unbuildable.